The Women+ Thread Makes No Excuses

☮ Anyone who identifies as female, or who was socialized female/AFAB/otherwise has firsthand experience with the issues being discussed, is welcome to post. If you identify as cis-male, we ask that you please set your participation to “lurk” mode, unless otherwise explicitly invited to participate further (i.e. if we did an AMA kind of thread). I’m sure there’s plenty to be gleaned just by reading!

☮ Please do your best to be mindful of others’ experiences when commenting or posing questions for the group. The female identity is Legion and contains multitudes, and not everyone who has experience with being treated as female by society identifies as female. Furthermore, racial and ethnic identities, sexual orientation, and many other factors can color how one experiences their gender identity on a day-to-day basis.

#MeToo has unearthed a lot of unsavory people and many of those people have tried to cover their unsavoriness with apologies. But it should come as no surprise to people here that many of those apologies are less than acceptable and no efforts to make good have been made. So what makes a good apology? What, if anything, can people who have caused offense to you do to make amends?